larry bagina writes: What up, yo. Marissa Mayer, MILF/HNIC at Yahoo just put the smack down. New projects need to ship within 6 months and must have a shot at generating 100 million eyeballs or $100 million benjamins. Anything less gets the Hans Reiser special. Shit is tight.

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by
CowboyNeal
on Saturday August 11, 2007 @10:31AM
from the calling-it-quits dept.

babbling writes "Google is going to close the Google Video Store, leaving users who bought videos that used Digital Restrictions Management without their purchases. The users of Google Video Store will be compensated with Google Checkout credit, but it seems they will be out of luck if they don't happen to be Google Checkout users."

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Zonk
on Thursday November 30, 2006 @03:10PM
from the now-how-will-we-know-things dept.

EricTheGreen writes "It isn't often that Google completely kills a product, which makes the announcement of the end of Google Answers noteworthy. I find it particularly interesting, given that there's clearly a market for this service. Yahoo!'s offering continues to flourish, it seems ... so what made Yahoo's service more attractive than Google's?" From the blog post: "Later this week, we will stop accepting new questions in Google Answers, the very first project we worked on here. The project started with a rough idea from Larry Page, and a small 4-person team turned it into reality in less than 4 months. For two new grads, it was a crash course in building a scalable product, responding to customer requests, and discovering what questions are on people's minds. Google Answers taught us exactly how many tyrannosaurs are in a gallon of gasoline, why flies survive a good microwaving, and why you really shouldn't drink water emitted by your air conditioner. Even closer to home, we learned one afternoon that our building might be on fire."